MINOR MISHAPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23134, 5 September 1938, Page 11

MINOR MISHAPS

SIX IN HOSPITAL SAMOAN'S HEAD INJURIES MOTOR-CAR SKIDS ON BRIDGE Six people were admitted to the Auckland Hospital at the week-end as the result of accidents of a less serious nature. Four of the patients were hurt in traffic mishaps, the other two being injured at work. The condition of all of them is not serious. Head injuries were received by a Samoan, .Roy Hugh Gilmore Watta,aged 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Watta, of 8 Waima Street, Archhill, when tha motor-cycle on which ho was a pillionrider skidded on the Great South Road near Mercer shortly after three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The injured man 'was taken in a St. John ambu- W lance to the hospital. The rider of tha machine, David John Watts, of 35 Calgary Street). Sandringkam, was not injured. When the car he was driving skidded and overturned on the railway bridge at Avondale late on Saturday afternoon Mr. Douglas John McFajJand* aged 37, single, of 35 Blockhouse Bay Road, Avondale, suffered a compound fracture of the right wrist.

Knocked off his bicycle by a motorcar at the corner of West Coast Road and New North Road, Glen Eden, lata yesterday afternoon Mr. Frank Thomas Cantoll, aged 24, single, of 17 Canada Street, Newton, was admitted to hospital with a fractured bone in the leftj foot.

Lacerations to the left hand Vera received by Mr. Richard Scott Jardin, aged '37, single, of Castor Bay, when he was using a circular saw at Albany; on Saturday afternoon. A plasterer, .Mr. George aged 54, married, of 22 Summer Street, Ponsonby, broke his left fore-arm on Saturday when he was caught in machinery belting. He is employed by Victor Plasterers, Limited.

COLLISION ON CORNER

TRUCK AND CAR MEET WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT CONDITION FAIRLY SERIOUS A woman passenger in a car received severe shock and a possible ibroken nosa when the vehicle was involved in a collision with a truck early last evening at the corner of Fairview and Mount Eden Roads. The truck was travelling toward the city along Mount Eden Poad and the car was turning from the city into Fairview Road when the accident occurred. The truck was damaged at the front and the car, which had to be towed away, was extensively damaged at the left side. The injured passenger, Mrs. Ray Ella Lena Morgan, of 4 St. Alban'a Avenue, Mount Eden, was treated by Mr. W. Cuthbert McCaw, of Mount Eden Road, and was taken to a private hospital until the arrival of the St. John ambulance. She was admitted to the Auckland Hospital, het condition last night _ being fairly serw ous.